[sdiy] SMT diodes: MELF vs. SOT-23 chip?

[Tom Bugs]

Many interesting points coming up!

Cost - personally I don't really consider these fractions, but I know 
why Mattias would (given who he is working for).
I personally like to have 'standard' parts that I don't really have to 
think about - but this SOT23 discussion does make me wonder if replacing 
MELF silicon diodes with SOT23 duals may be useful -> you can always 
just ignore one of them and you're still getting maybe a small space 
saving.
(still, not going to relay all my designs at this stage..)

I hadn't realised there were 4148s in 1206, 0805, 0603 sizes - good to know.
Nor had micro-melf really registered on my radar.

Regarding shape - I actually find SOT23s somewhat annoying for hand 
soldering as they invariably seem to sit upside down and can be 
resistive to being flipped the right way up with tweezers!

Tom

On 24/09/2015 11:05, Roman Sowa wrote:
> Yes, visually, or rather in how clean the PCB design can be in terms 
> of density and ease of routing the traces.
>
> Roman
>
> W dniu 2015-09-24 o 11:34, Mattias Rickardsson pisze:
>> On 24 September 2015 at 08:38, Roman <modular at go2.pl> wrote:
>>> micro-melf is much smaller than SOT23 and signal path is so much 
>>> cleaner
>>
>> You mean visually? Not in signal quality? :-)
>>
>> /mr
>>
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